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ww2dbaseThe program that was later codenamed VENONA began in Feb 1943 by the Signal Intelligence Service of the United States Army. It began per the orders of US Army Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence Carter Clarke who distrusted the Soviet Union for its pre-war collaboration with Germany and the potential that it might sign a separate peace treaty with Germany. It studied intercepted Soviet communications by American, British, and Australian listening posts. Most of the intercepted messages were obtained between 1942 and 1945, almost most of them were not deciphered until 1946. Through some of these messages the United States learned of the Soviet attempts to obtain information on the Manhattan Project. Later during the Cold War the VENONA project was instrumental in exposing Julius and Ethel Rosenberg as Soviet spies. The program was canceled in 1980, and the program records began to be revealed to the public in 1995. ww2dbase

Associated Document	Date	Date
Possible Greco-Italian War and Writer		0000-00-00
Reports from Jerome and Therapeutist		0000-00-00
Fragmentary Prague Text	1 Mar 1940	1940-03-01
Fragmentary Prague Text from Moscow	1 Mar 1940	1940-03-01
Fragmentary Text from Moscow to London	3 Mar 1940	1940-03-03
Unidentified Cover Names (New York)	1 Apr 1940	1940-04-01
Message to KAL'MARO: Checking Entrusted To FINO	11 Apr 1940	1940-04-11
Fragmentary Paris Text	14 Apr 1940	1940-04-14
NORWALD	27 Apr 1940	1940-04-27
Fragmentary Paris Text	28 Apr 1940	1940-04-28
Fragmentary Paris Text from Moscow	28 Apr 1940	1940-04-28
DYuKOV	30 Jun 1940	1940-06-30
Friction Between British and Colonial Troops; French Ships at Portsmouth; Ban on Possession of Maps	6 Jul 1940	1940-07-06
Details of the Tommy-Gun; Report on British Anti-Invasion Measures	8 Jul 1940	1940-07-08
ZhEROM and MARTA; DIK Requests Repeat of Telegram	8 Jul 1940	1940-07-08
British, Russian, and German Interests in the Balkans and the Mediterranean	11 Jul 1940	1940-07-11
Report on German Bombing	15 Jul 1940	1940-07-15
Report on Gloucester and Bristol	15 Jul 1940	1940-07-15
Report on Intelligence Activities in London	15 Jul 1940	1940-07-15
Report on Liverpool	1 Aug 1940	1940-08-01
Information About German Air Attacks	3 Aug 1940	1940-08-03
STENLI, ChERNIJ, and KAPRANOV	3 Aug 1940	1940-08-03
British Call-Up; Removal of Anti-Tank Obstacles; Disuse of Sirens	6 Aug 1940	1940-08-06
British-French Relations; False French Passport; Ban on Baltic Shipping	10 Aug 1940	1940-08-10
German Air-Raids	10 Aug 1940	1940-08-10
Mary	13 Aug 1940	1940-08-13
Poultry-Dealer, Brown, and Stanley; Muse	13 Aug 1940	1940-08-13
2nd Reissue of WRITER and Kh. Z. SLONI	14 Aug 1940	1940-08-14
British Attitude To Baltic States; German Bombing; Businessman; Poultry-Dealer	14 Aug 1940	1940-08-14
Request for Repeats of Moscow's Telegrams Nos. 403 and 404	14 Aug 1940	1940-08-14
Luftwaffe Bombing and Use of Gas in France	15 Aug 1940	1940-08-15
Request for Repeat of Moscow's Telegram No. 403	15 Aug 1940	1940-08-15
Air Raid on Croydon	16 Aug 1940	1940-08-16
Intelligentsia; Martha, Mary, Dick, and Mark; Recruitment of Hein	16 Aug 1940	1940-08-16
British Aircraft Losses and Production	17 Aug 1940	1940-08-17
Chemical Work for Military Purposes in Britain	20 Aug 1940	1940-08-20
Dick's Visit to Kenley Air Station	20 Aug 1940	1940-08-20
Bomb Damage and Defences in South-West London	21 Aug 1940	1940-08-21
Report on British Anti-Invasion Defences	22 Aug 1940	1940-08-22
German Shelling of Southeastern Britain; Arrival of US Admirals and Generals	23 Aug 1940	1940-08-23
Report on Bombing in London Area	23 Aug 1940	1940-08-23
German Bombing Tactics; British Port and Coastal Defenses	26 Aug 1940	1940-08-26
Communications with Muse; Stanley	27 Aug 1940	1940-08-27
Information from Soviet Ambassador; Bombing of London; British Observation System	27 Aug 1940	1940-08-27
Muse	27 Aug 1940	1940-08-27
Bombing of British Cities; Shelling of Dover	28 Aug 1940	1940-08-28
Bombing of British Cities; British Aircraft Losses; New Machine Guns	29 Aug 1940	1940-08-29
Instructions for Muse	30 Aug 1940	1940-08-30

Source(s):
United States National Security Agency

Added By:
C. Peter Chen

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